So they said, "Look, Lord, here are two swords." Then he told them, "It is enough."

"Father, if you are willing, take this cup away from me. Yet not my will but yours be done."

So he said to them, "Why are you sleeping? Get up and pray that you will not fall into temptation!"

When those who were around him saw what was about to happen, they said, "Lord, should we use our swords?"

Then one of them struck the high priest's slave, cutting off his right ear.

But Jesus said, "Enough of this!" And he touched the man's ear and healed him.

Day after day when I was with you in the temple courts, you did not arrest me. But this is your hour, and that of the power of darkness!"

Then a little later someone else saw him and said, "You are one of them too." But Peter said, "Man, I am not!"

Now the men who were holding Jesus under guard began to mock him and beat him.

and said, "If you are the Christ, tell us." But he said to them, "If I tell you, you will not believe,

So they all said, "Are you the Son of God, then?" He answered them, "You say that I am."

They began to accuse him, saying, "We found this man subverting our nation, forbidding us to pay the tribute tax to Caesar and claiming that he himself is Christ, a king."

So Pilate asked Jesus, "Are you the king of the Jews?" He replied, "You say so."

The chief priests and the experts in the law were there, vehemently accusing him.

But they were insistent, demanding with loud shouts that he be crucified. And their shouts prevailed.

A great number of the people followed him, among them women who were mourning and wailing for him.

But Jesus turned to them and said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.

For this is certain: The days are coming when they will say, 'Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore children, and the breasts that never nursed!'

For if such things are done when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?"

Two other criminals were also led away to be executed with him.

[But Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they don't know what they are doing."] Then they threw dice to divide his clothes.

and saying, "If you are the king of the Jews, save yourself!"

But the other rebuked him, saying, "Don't you fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation?

And we rightly so, for we are getting what we deserve for what we did, but this man has done nothing wrong."

Then he said, "Jesus, remember me when you come in your kingdom."

Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!" And after he said this he breathed his last.

Then he took it down, wrapped it in a linen cloth, and placed it in a tomb cut out of the rock, where no one had yet been buried.

While they were perplexed about this, suddenly two men stood beside them in dazzling attire.

The women were terribly frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, "Why do you look for the living among the dead?

Now that very day two of them were on their way to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem.

They were talking to each other about all the things that had happened.

While they were talking and debating these things, Jesus himself approached and began to accompany them

(but their eyes were kept from recognizing him).

Then he said to them, "What are these matters you are discussing so intently as you walk along?" And they stood still, looking sad.

Then one of them, named Cleopas, answered him, "Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who doesn't know the things that have happened there in these days?"

and how our chief priests and rulers handed him over to be condemned to death, and crucified him.

Furthermore, some women of our group amazed us. They were at the tomb early this morning,

Then some of those who were with us went to the tomb, and found it just as the women had said, but they did not see him."

So they approached the village where they were going. He acted as though he wanted to go farther,

At this point their eyes were opened and they recognized him. Then he vanished out of their sight.

They said to each other, "Didn't our hearts burn within us while he was speaking with us on the road, while he was explaining the scriptures to us?"

While they were saying these things, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you."

But they were startled and terrified, thinking they saw a ghost.

Then he said to them, "Why are you frightened, and why do doubts arise in your hearts?

And while they still could not believe it (because of their joy) and were amazed, he said to them, "Do you have anything here to eat?"

Then he said to them, "These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled."

You are witnesses of these things.

and were continually in the temple courts blessing God.

All things were created by him, and apart from him not one thing was created that has been created.

-- children not born by human parents or by human desire or a husband's decision, but by God.

Now this was John's testimony when the Jewish leaders sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?"

So they asked him, "Then who are you? Are you Elijah?" He said, "I am not!" "Are you the Prophet?" He answered, "No!"

Then they said to him, "Who are you? Tell us so that we can give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?"

So they asked John, "Why then are you baptizing if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?"

These things happened in Bethany across the Jordan River where John was baptizing.

Jesus turned around and saw them following and said to them, "What do you want?" So they said to him, "Rabbi" (which is translated Teacher), "where are you staying?"

Jesus answered, "Come and you will see." So they came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day. Now it was about four o'clock in the afternoon.

Andrew brought Simon to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, "You are Simon, the son of John. You will be called Cephas" (which is translated Peter).

Nathanael asked him, "How do you know me?" Jesus replied, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you."

Nathanael answered him, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the king of Israel!"

and Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the wedding.

Jesus replied, "Woman, why are you saying this to me? My time has not yet come."

Now there were six stone water jars there for Jewish ceremonial washing, each holding twenty or thirty gallons.

When the head steward tasted the water that had been turned to wine, not knowing where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), he called the bridegroom

and said to him, "Everyone serves the good wine first, and then the cheaper wine when the guests are drunk. You have kept the good wine until now!"

He found in the temple courts those who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers sitting at tables.

His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for your house will devour me."

So then the Jewish leaders responded, "What sign can you show us, since you are doing these things?"

Then the Jewish leaders said to him, "This temple has been under construction for forty-six years, and are you going to raise it up in three days?"

came to Jesus at night and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the miraculous signs that you do unless God is with him."

The wind blows wherever it will, and you hear the sound it makes, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit."

Jesus answered, "Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you don't understand these things?

I tell you the solemn truth, we speak about what we know and testify about what we have seen, but you people do not accept our testimony.

Now this is the basis for judging: that the light has come into the world and people loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil.

John was also baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because water was plentiful there, and people were coming to him and being baptized.

(although Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples were),

"Sir," the woman said to him, "you have no bucket and the well is deep; where then do you get this living water?

Surely you're not greater than our ancestor Jacob, are you? For he gave us this well and drank from it himself, along with his sons and his livestock."

The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water."

He said to her, "Go call your husband and come back here."

The woman replied, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "Right you are when you said, 'I have no husband,'

for you have had five husbands, and the man you are living with now is not your husband. This you said truthfully!"

The woman said to him, "Sir, I see that you are a prophet.

Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you people say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem."

Now at that very moment his disciples came back. They were shocked because he was speaking with a woman. However, no one said, "What do you want?" or "Why are you speaking with her?"

Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, "Rabbi, eat something."

Don't you say, 'There are four more months and then comes the harvest?' I tell you, look up and see that the fields are already white for harvest!

They said to the woman, "No longer do we believe because of your words, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this one really is the Savior of the world."

Now he came again to Cana in Galilee where he had made the water wine. In Capernaum there was a certain royal official whose son was sick.

Jesus told him, "Go home; your son will live." The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and set off for home.

Then the father realized that it was the very time Jesus had said to him, "Your son will live," and he himself believed along with his entire household.

A great number of sick, blind, lame, and paralyzed people were lying in these walkways.

Jesus said to him, "Stand up! Pick up your mat and walk."

So the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath, and you are not permitted to carry your mat."

But he answered them, "The man who made me well said to me, 'Pick up your mat and walk.'"

They asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, 'Pick up your mat and walk'?"

For this reason the Jewish leaders were trying even harder to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was also calling God his own Father, thus making himself equal with God.

"Do not be amazed at this, because a time is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice

but you are not willing to come to me so that you may have life.

"Do not suppose that I will accuse you before the Father. The one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have placed your hope.